John Ward – Pensions: George Osborne – Destroyer Of Personal Wealth….Supplier To Corporatist Fascism – 6 October 2014

Rich depraved bloke seeks to tax deprived Oldies to death

On April 6th 2015, everyone with a draw-down pension will be able to turn it into cash – and/or do a lot more things with it as a pension. Doesn’t that sound exciting?

Just as with Help to Buy, the minute Osborne announced this scam I was in grudging awe of the man’s skill when it comes to underwater three-dimensional Chess moves. He may have 100% of all the wrong ends, but he does have 250% of the right means to achieve said ends.

Typhoon Hits Japan: 50 Injured, 4 Swept Out To Sea, Tokyo Drenched – 6 October 2014

At least one person died and five remain missing after powerful Typhoon Phanfone struck Japan, bringing rough seas heavy rain and strong winds. About 50 people have been injured throughout the islands.

A member of US Air Force drowned as he was taking photos of the coast of the southern Okinawa Prefecture. Two more US personnel remain missing after the three were swept out to sea by powerful waves.

“Three officials were taking pictures with high waves whipped up by the typhoon in the background,” a spokesman at local police told AFP. “One has been found dead, with the two others still missing.”

On Sunday Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that one university student, aged 21, went missing while doing surfing near the city of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, central Japan.

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Ukraine May Have Found A Gas Savior In Norway, Moscow Skeptical – 6 October 2014

Naftogaz, Ukraine’s biggest natural gas company, has signed a deal with Norway’s Statoil and started receiving shipments, arriving just in time to possibly save Kiev from an energy crisis before winter. Experts in Moscow doubt the legality.

“Statoil has signed an agreement with yet another new-to-Statoil gas customer in the European gas market. The agreement with Naftogaz is for deliveries of gas in Slovakia,” Statoil spokesman Morten Eek said, noting shipments began on Wednesday from Slovakia.

“From there, they are responsible for transportation,” Eek said, but didn’t specify the price Naftogaz is paying for the deliveries.

The spokesman said the deal is “short-term” and the volumes are “relatively-low”.

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John Ward – Today’s Eight Reasons Why Crash2 Is Coming – 6 October 2014

Merkel clobbered by neolib boomerang syndrome

At the end of its first, ignominious year, Help to Buy results are available for analysis. The Sun headline is Kylie marries former jailbird in no that’s not right, the real write-bite is this: 2.5% of all mortgages have used the scheme, and the adopters are young and downmarket wannabes north of London who live predominantly in Labour constituencies. The very folks who don’t normally vote Conservative. Just fancy that.

Brenda Hoffman – Your Segments Are Creating Fun Chaos – 6 October 2014

Summary of Brenda’s October 3, 2014 free, 15-minute, channeled “Creation Energies” show at  http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/brenda-hoffman:  The energy bursts of the next few days will be a bit deeper and/or disconcerting than you’ve experienced before. If you’ve focused on emotional issues during this transition, you’ll experience more physical shifts. If you’ve focused on physical issues, you’ll shift to emotional pieces. You’re expanding, growing, adding to your being. You’re no longer a segmented being of 3D earth – you’ve joined the Universes.

SWIFT: ‘No Authority’ To Suspend Russia, Israel From Intl Payments Over Sanctions – 6 October 2014

SWIFT will not bow to pressure to disconnect Russia and Israel from international transactions as it has “no authority” to make unilateral sanctions decisions, the Belgium-based group said Monday.

“SWIFT regrets the pressure, as well as the surrounding media speculation, both of which risk undermining the systemic character of the services that SWIFT provides its customers around the world. As a utility with a systemic global character, it has no authority to make sanctions decisions,” the group said in a statement released on Monday.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, is currently one of Russia’s main connections to the international banking system, and if turned off, could hurt Russia’s economy, in the short-term.

“SWIFT services are designed to facilitate its customers’ compliance with sanctions and other regulations, however SWIFT will not make unilateral decisions to disconnect institutions from its network as a result of political pressure,” the communique said.

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New NATO Chief Reassures Poland Amidst Ukraine Crisis – 6 October 2014

NATO’s new secretary-general has stated that its rapid reaction force can be deployed whenever necessary in an interview on Polish television aimed at reassuring eastern bloc countries that they have support in the aftermath of crisis in Ukraine.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this article quoted new NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as saying that NATO could deploy “wherever it wants”. The quote came from a report by Reuters news agency. However, the Polish broadcaster TVP Info’s website, who owns the interview, does not have this quote in their transcript.]

New NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has paid a visit to NATO member Poland, where he reiterated calls for a rapid reaction “spearhead” force that could launch a military offensive within days.

READ MORE: US tanks arrive in Baltics, Poland requests greater US military presence

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Blossom Goodchild – 6 October 2014

Good morning. Trusting today will bring about another wonderful message from you.

Good morning to you all also. We sincerely accept your TRUSTING and as always do our upmost to bring forth wisdom to assist … be it in small quantities or large.

May we continue on from last week? We were talking about the word ‘God’.

We Truthfully FEEL that this word has been taken from its original context and yet, each individual soul must find their own TRUTH regarding it. The fact is … it is not about ‘words’ … it is about FEELING.

Laura Bruno – Derrick Jensen: “There Is ONE Measure By Which We Will Be Judged By Those That Come After Us . . . – 6 October 2014

laurabruno:

Yes!

Originally posted on Exopermaculture:

. . . and that’s the health of the land base. It’s the only thing that matters. the ONLY thing. . . You can have this eco-groovy socialist utopia, and if you’re living on a poisoned planet, you don’t have anything!”“People ask me if I advocate violence and I say no. Nor do I advocate non-violence. I advocate being present to your circumstances and being present to your own gifts, and using those gifts in the service of the land base.”“Imagine: we all start saying: ‘I will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to stop global warming, monsanto, military imperialism, etc.’ What happens if we do that?”This rousing Derrick Jensen clip reminds me of my vow, on returning from the North American Permaculture Convergence in Minnesota just over a month ago. My take-away from the convergence was the understanding that any permaculture project of whatever size, if it’s worth it’s salt, will rub…

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John Ward – (Not Entirely) Lord Of The Flies – 6 October 2014

 Partly thanks to a seriously mild Indian Summer here, I am suffering a plague of flies at the minute. But much as I would love to blame the entire syndrome on ‘Climate Change’, this morning I discovered a more profoundly disturbing reality: the common house fly is now immune to many of the leading brands of insecticide.

A variety of internet pages confirm that ‘with the repeated use of the same insecticides, flies develop resistance through genetic mutations that make these products less effective’. To be clear about this, I inflicted a popular brand of French fly-spray on my invaders….and it had zero, zilch, no effect on the recipients. The odd bluebottle I targeted…yes, it began the familiar manic dipping and diving one associates with imminent flying insect death: but your house-fly laughed in the face of my attack.

Hitchcock sought a suitably terrifying follow-up to The Birds, but never found it. Were the old sex-beast alive today, one can’t help thinking that he might have gone for The Flies. You may think I jest, but these persistent little buggers are cavorting all over my kitchen surfaces, tables, plates and skin: and I feel powerless to stop  them.

Worse things happen at sea, as my mysteriously bonkers Auntie Myra used to say. But there are very, very few seagoing flies.

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